[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 157 (2011), Part 10]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 14351]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    OUR UNCONSCIONABLE NATIONAL DEBT

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                           HON. MIKE COFFMAN

                              of colorado

                    in the house of representatives

                       Friday, September 23, 2011

  Mr. COFFMAN of Colorado. Mr. Speaker, today our national debt is 
$14,726,790,407,953.74.
  On January 6, 2009, the start of the 111th Congress, the national 
debt was $10,638,425,746,293.80.
  This means the national debt has increased by $4,088,364,661,659.94 
since then. This debt and its interest payments we are passing to our 
children and all future Americans.

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